Luva Huva - London, Beautiful ethicial lingerie handmade in the UK.

1st May 2012

Tom (the business partner) came into the studio yesterday

Tom and Jo

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27th April 2012

Inspiration from the flower fairies

Flower fairies

squashed flower fairies

We have been working really hard at Luva Huva and all feel a bit dizzy and tired. We now have the pictures from our summer shoot and we are working hard to put our new catalogue together.

There is always the job of naming all the garments. Its been tradition, from our Suffolk roots to name our garments after flowers ...although it is begining to be a challenge to find new flower names that we havent used before.

I recently came across some very old flower fairy books at Portobello Market with beautiful illustrations. I found a few new names inside 'Tansy' 'Jasmine' 'Scilla'. Look out for them in the new collection.

Talking about these fairies in the studio brought up the darker topic of the the squashed flower fairy book.. dark but also good! 

Squashed fairies

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13th March 2012

Peony Yip Illustrations

Peony Yip

Peony Yip

Peony Yip

We came across the work of Hong Kong based artist Peony Yip and fell in love.

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9th March 2012

Designing Women-Post War British Textiles

Mobiles 1952 designed by Marian Marler

Pebbles 1952 designed by Jacqueline Groag

Calyx 1951 designed by lucienne Day

Designing women in textiles is a new exhibition at the fashion and textile museum 16th March 16th June. Hop along it looks good!

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8th March 2012

Giant Beach Bubbles by the bubblesmith

The bubblesmith in action

Sterling Johnson was trained as an engineer and a lawyer but started blowing bubbles to amuse his friends. 30 yrs later he has developed his bubble blowing into a full stage show. He is the only person to put a bubble inside a bubble only using his hands and to walk in and out of bubbles.

He says on his website that that his favourite bubble blowing story comes from when he was volunteering in a school for children with special needs. He was blowing bubbles on a formica table and a girl with severe autisum, who normally gave little reaction to what was going on around her suddenly became engaged and her eyes cleared and she began to enjoy popping the bubbles.

Having worked with children with special needs for 4 years before I starting Luva Huva I like this story. 

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23rd February 2012

Miss Blackbirdy

Miss Blackbirdy

Miss Blackbirdy

Miss Blackbirdys story telling collection is delicate and beautiful. Her garments are like her drawn illistrations with a focus on monochrome line. Fragile and girlish with a touch of naivety- we love it.

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